Billy Corgan Quotes

Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice.
Billy Corgan

Rock, Based, Roll

Well, I'm known as a guitar-rock guy, you know? You're not supposed to play with synthesizers. This is not in the rulebook.
Billy Corgan

Play, Guy, Known

What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the public likes and appreciates them for.
Billy Corgan

Find, Try, Public

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.
Billy Corgan

Tried, Reinvent, Familiar

When you actually like each other, it translates to the music.
Billy Corgan

Music, Actually, Translates

You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.
Billy Corgan

Music, Deal, Audience

You have to keep adapting to the times. If you kind of go with it, it can kind of fun.
Billy Corgan

Fun, Keep, Times

You just reach a point sometimes with somebody where it just doesn't work.
Billy Corgan

Work, Sometimes, Point

You're in a band 24 hours a day.
Billy Corgan

I was raised a Christian, but I wouldn't call myself a Christian now. I think when I was younger it was easier to focus on the negative, nihilist vision... this is sort of picking up on the other half of the body, which is God and white light.
Billy Corgan

God, Focus, Christian

I had concussions as a kid playing football and basketball, and know what it feels like and to have someone say 'Just rub some dirt on it, and get back in there.'
Billy Corgan

Someone, Football, Basketball

My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let's all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I'm not that kind of guy. It's an embrace that life is good, worth living and yeah, it's not easy, but there are more pluses than minuses.
Billy Corgan

Life, Good, Jesus

As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been much more consistent, in my lifetime at least, at putting a winning ballclub on the field.
Billy Corgan

Great, Winning, Find

I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and why they booked matches a certain way and what they were thinking and whether they were satisfied with the draw. And I got a lot of insight in the business.
Billy Corgan

Business, Thinking, Why

I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done.
Billy Corgan

Mother, Real, Done

I don't think people are fans of me because I wrote hit songs. I think they're fans because I'm a lunatic or a weirdo. The hit songs came out of my idiosyncratic personality, not the other way around.
Billy Corgan

Around, Songs, Fans

I don't think people buy records because of anything that happens on Facebook. They buy records cause they're friends say 'I bought this record and I love it.'
Billy Corgan

Love, Friends, Happens

I lay a lot of blame at the feet of Dusty Baker for not being more strict about fundamentals, which I think would give the team a stronger day-to-day identity.
Billy Corgan

Blame, Give, Team

I mean my point as an artist is I'm on my own little weird journey across the sky here and whether or not anybody's listening, or listening to the degree I would like them to, at the end of the day has to be an inconsequential thing because I can't chase this culture.
Billy Corgan

End, Mean, Here

I mean there's certainly a lot of progressive rock and metal that exists at the underground level, which has its own vitality, as it should. But it seems to have lost its ability to really charge up the hill.
Billy Corgan

Rock, Lost, Mean

I started thinking that if post modernism is about people opening up all their skeletons, I'm going the other way. I don't want anyone knowing anything about me anymore.
Billy Corgan

Thinking, Knowing, Anyone

I think long and hard about what it is I'm actually trying to do, and then I kind of have to narrow my focus into that. If I don't, I'm too all over the place.
Billy Corgan

Focus, Long, Hard

I think when I listen to old records, it puts me back in the atmosphere of what it felt like to make the record and who was there and what the room looked like. It's more a sensory memory.
Billy Corgan

Old, Memory, Listen

I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity.
Billy Corgan

Music, Death, Thinking

I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry.
Billy Corgan

Alive, Ideas, Chemistry

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Nationality: American

Born: March 17, 1967

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